Kenya: Four police officers and a civilian were killed and two more police are missing after their truck hit a landmine along the country’s northern coast. (Reuters)

Niger: More than 40 West African migrants died in the Sahara desert after their truck broke down in the country’s arid north. (Reuters)

Rwanda: The country’s media regulator said the election body does not have the mandate to regulate social media use by presidential candidates, a measure seen as an assault on free speech. (AFP)

AMERICAS

Region: The Organization of American States fell short in their bid to reach agreement about how to address Venezuela’s deteriorating democratic crisis. (AP)

Panama: Panamanian authorities arrested 64 people and seized four tons of cocaine following a two-year investigation into a drug trafficking ring. (Reuters)

United States: A group of global power brokers including politicians, bankers, business titans and European royalty gathered to debate the merits of Donald Trump’s US presidency. (AFP)

ASIA

Region: South Korean President Moon Jae-in’s top security aide left for the US as the new leader tries to reassure Seoul’s main ally he won’t scrap a deal to host a missile defense system that has angered China. (Reuters)

Afghanistan: The Afghan National Directorate of Security, the country’s primary intelligence agency, blamed the Haqqani network for the 31MAY Kabul bombing. (Xinhua)

Bangladesh: The Bangladesh navy rescued 23 fishermen from the Bay of Bengal and is searching for scores more missing since a cyclone hit two days ago. (AFP)

Philippines: An air strike during Philippine military operations killed 10 government troops in a major blow to efforts to defeat fighters linked to the Islamic State group. (Reuters)

EUROPE

Region: Some 4,000 US and European troops are taking part in the annual Baltic Operations navy exercise on the Baltic Sea. (AP)

Greece: Human Rights Watch claimed EU officials were being pressured to reduce the number of refugees being classified as vulnerable in order to bypass laws that would otherwise bring people to the country’s mainland. (EFE)

Georgia: The opposition United National Movement party called for the interior minister and State Security Service chief to resign over a cross-border abduction of an Azerbaijani investigative journalist. (RFE/RL)

Germany: The country vowed to extend its relationship with China in an increasingly uncertain global environment, as a result of talks between Chancellor Angela Merkel and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang. (Reuters)

MIDDLE EAST

Region: Unknown assailants attacked an oil tanker in the Bab al-Mandab Strait in the Red Sea near Yemen. (Reuters)

Region: A Palestinian woman stabbed an Israeli soldier in the northern West Bank before being shot and critically wounded. (AFP)

Syria: Russian warplanes launched a series of strikes against Islamic State group jihadists fleeing their Syrian stronghold Raqqa, as US-backed forces edge closer to the city. (AFP)

Syria: Syrian opposition activists say Baraa Kadek, the founder of one of the main Islamic State group media outlets, was killed in an airstrike. (AP)

TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNICATIONS

Technology: Social media companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google have stepped up the removal of hate speech on their platforms in response to EU pressure. (Reuters)